Unconscious Quotes - Page 35

• The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

  Carl Jung

  Secret, Too Much, Conscious

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• Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self, Ideas, People

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• I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Blessed, Thinking

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (1953). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

  Rollo May

  Time, Creativity, Imagination

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• We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Moving, Choices, Evolution

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Aug 04, 2016

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• Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Freedom, Gestalt, Patterns

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• Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons.

  Jhoon Goo Rhee

  Basketball, Regret, Discipline

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• Intuition comes from the whole person, from a place that includes the conscious and the unconscious. The total result of all feelings and perceptions manifests spontaneously through intuition. Intuition gives expression to the feelings; that expression is unique and perfectly fitted to the needs of the moment.

  Michele Cassou

  Unique, Expression, Giving

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• Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Science, Order, Numbers

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Creation Myths: Revised Edition”, p.245, Shambhala Publications

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• The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Self, Long

  "The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth".

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• Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Miracle, Forgiving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.194, New World Library

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• Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

  Edwin Muir

  Character, Reality, Literature

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• Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Men, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Sleep, Waking Life

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• Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

  Richard J. Mayer

  Motivation, People, Motivated

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• Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Fall

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.2, Psychology Press

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• From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the present conflict to enter a condition in which there shall be no conflict; or whether you are unaware, unconscious of this conflict in which you exist. If you are unconscious of the conflict, that is, the battle that is taking place between that self and the environment, if you are unconscious of that battle, then why do you seek further remedies? Remain unconscious.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1934-1935: What Is Right Action”, Editorial Kier

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• You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Typewriters, Trying

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• Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

  Guy Finley

  Bad Day, Dark, Dwelling

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Problem

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• Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Commitment, Reality, Mind

  Richard Paul Evans (2009). “The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to know who you are, look into the true mirror. The flower will reflect your beauty. The sky will reflect your vastness. The ocean will reflect your depth. The child will reflect your innocence. But if you look into the mirror that is unconscious humanity, you are looking into the wrong mirror. Your reflection will be distorted by their projections.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Children, Ocean, Flower

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• The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Artist, Giving

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature”, Routledge

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• Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

  Federico Fellini

  Mean, Dark, Reality

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